Amplify your Agility with retros that rock

Retrospectives are a regular chance to check how you can improve your Agile practice. This makes them really powerful. Sometimes though the fact that they are regular counts against them. They can get repetitive and the team can lose interest.

Here are two guides to getting the most from your retrospectives, Sprint after Sprint:

Spotify retro kit (PDF) — an easy-to-follow do-it-yourself retro kit covering the basics and walking you through five different retros

Handpicked resources to help you make a bigger impact

We’ve picked 18 of our most popular and practical resources, choosing those most likely to maximise your impact. These cover Agile and Scrum, software and web development, and ways you can build stronger teams.

Tried and tested Agile training

One of the good things about running an ICAgile-certified course like the Agile Professional Foundation is that ICAgile gathers anonymous feedback to help us continually improve the training.

ICAgile also give us our Net Promoter Score. This tells us how likely people are to recommend the course, a really good measure of customer satisfaction. Currently it’s 9.4 out of 10 which suggests we’re doing something right. To keep ourselves honest we’re displaying this on our web page about the course.

The result of this ongoing improvement is a lively two-day course that uses real-world examples and engaging activities to demonstrate how being Agile can enhance your ability to make a difference at work.

Take your team’s Agile practice to the next level

If you’ve already made the move to Agile you’ll know the importance of regularly inspecting and adapting your work. One way you can do this is through our Agile Accelerator. This is an independent expert review and action plan that gives you clear steps to improve quickly and lock in gains.

“Boost’s input has been invaluable and helped us avoid, or at least deal with, many of the challenges we encountered during our transition to Agile.”Des KellyApplications Analysis Manager, Victoria University

If you’d like to learn more about the Agile Accelerator, contact James on +64 4 939 0062 or james@boost.co.nz.

World Cup winners

Congratulations to World Cup winners France, and Yar who won the Boost sweepstake.

Yar was picking France even before the tournament started, a feat of prediction that outperformed dozens of pundits and multiple AIs. What made it more remarkable is that the teams for the sweepstake were drawn at random and Yar successfully pulled his team of choice out of the hat.

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